Topic List and Schedule (Subject to Change)

2/26		Course Overview & Keyword Spotting and Utterance Verification	HW1: Keyword Spotting and Utterance Verification (Due 3/31)
3/04		Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) using Tree-Copy Search (1/2)
3/11		Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) using Tree-Copy Search (2/2)	HW2: Time-conditioned Tree-Copy Search
3/18		Machine Learning: Maximum Entropy (ME)
3/25		Machine Learning: Conditional Random Fields (CRF)
4/01		Break (ICASSP 2008)
4/08		Maximum Entropy Direct Models for Speech Recognition
4/15		Robustness Techniques (I)
4/22		ICASSP2008 Paper Survey (I), ICASSP2008 Paper Survey (II-1), ICASSP2008 Paper Survey (II-2)
4/29		Robust Indexing and Retrieval of Spoken Documents
5/06		Spoken Term Detection Techniques (I)
5/13		Extended Baum-Welch Algorithm ICASSP2008 Paper Survey (III)
5/20		Robustness Techniques (II)
5/27		A Survey on Language Model Adaptation Techniques
6/03		Discriminative Training for Speech Recognition Feature Selection For Ranking
6/10		Support Vector Machines and Associated Learning Algorithms

References:
  Books:

1.		W. Chou,. B.H. Juang. Pattern Recognition in Speech and Language Processing. CRC Press. (February 26, 2003)
2.		X. Huang, A. Acero, H. Hon. Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development. Prentice Hall. (April 25, 2001)
3.		W. B. Croft and J. Lafferty (Editors). Language Modeling for Information Retrieval. Kluwer-Academic Publishers, July 2003.
4.		R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.
5.		C. Manning and H. Schutze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press, 1999.

  Papers:

1.		Lawrence Rabiner. The Power of Speech. Science, Vol. 301, pp. 1494-1495, Sep. 2003.
2.		Lan Huang. A Survey On Web Information Retrieval Technologies. 2000.

 Corpora:

1.		The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing